Saturday, October 28
Hammond, La.
1:00 p.m.
Stephen F. Austin
at
Southeastern Louisiana University
League-Leading Ladyjacks Tangle with Southeastern Louisiana Saturday Afternoon
10/27/2017 12:54:00 PM | Women's Volleyball
SFA sits atop the Southland standings, Southeastern Louisiana searching for first league win of 2017
Match 28
Stephen F. Austin (22-5, 10-1 Southland) at Southeastern Louisiana (2-23, 0-11 Southland)
Saturday, Oct. 28 | 1:00 p.m. | University Center (7,500) | Hammond, La.
Live Stats | Watch | SFA Match Notes | Southland Conference Standings
Stephen F. Austin (22-5, 10-1 Southland) at Southeastern Louisiana (2-23, 0-11 Southland)
Saturday, Oct. 28 | 1:00 p.m. | University Center (7,500) | Hammond, La.
Live Stats | Watch | SFA Match Notes | Southland Conference Standings
THE FULL ROTATION
• For the first time since the 2017 campaign commenced, the Stephen F. Austin volleyball team sits in first place in the Southland Conference standings with only five league matches remaining in the regular season. Now the Ladyjacks' mission is to remain there and the first challenge the newly-minuted league leaders face comes Saturday afternoon in Hammond, La., where SFA is set to mix it up with Southeastern Louisiana at 1:00 p.m. inside the University Center.
• Even though SFA sits atop the 13-team Southland Conference, there are still any number of things that could happen to shake up the standings and determine the Southland Conference regular season champion. Only two games separate the teams in first through fifth place and Saturday SFA begins one of its toughest stretch of the season by playing four matches in eight days.
• Since suffering a 3-0 loss at the hands of Southland Conference adversary Houston Baptist on the penultimate day of September, SFA has responded by winning eight matches in a row to vault to the top of the Southland standings. That eight-match winning streak by the Ladyjacks is their second-longest of the season and all eight of the wins have come in the month of October, making SFA one of 25 NCAA Division I volleyball teams without a loss in the month. Of that group of 25 institutions, five are from the state of Texas and they include North Texas, Rice, SFA, Texas and Texas State.
• With over 20 wins in hand - 22 to be exact - SFA is one of just two Southland Conference programs and one of only 17 NCAA Division I volleyball teams with 20 or more wins under its belt in 2017. SFA is three victories shy of producing its first season of 25 or more wins in a decade.
• A big part of SFA's current run of success has been the play of junior outside hitter Haley Coleman. A product of Rockwall, Texas, Coleman broke into the top ten players in the Southland Conference in terms of kills per set and points per set by tying a career-high with 17 terminations and establishing a new career best with four service aces in Thursday night's 3-1 triumph at New Orleans. Coleman did not hit above .130 during her first two seasons as a collegian but has taken a major step forward as a junior by attacking at a clip of .283. Currently Coleman is tied for ninth among all Southland Conference players with a kills per set average of 2.98 and her points per set average of 3.44 ranks ninth among all league players. She has generated 10 or more kills and hit .300 or better in each of her last four matches while producing a pair of double-doubles in that span.
• The Ladyjacks own the top hitting percentage in the Southland Conference and their mark of .266 ranks 26th nationally. In Southland Conference matches, SFA is hitting at a league-leading clip of .305 which makes the Ladyjacks one of just 13 NCAA Division I teams from around the nation that has posted a team attack percentage of .300 or better in conference play.
LAST TIME OUT
• It took four sets - three of which were decided by four or fewer points - but the Ladyjacks outlasted an upset-minded New Orleans squad inside the Human Performance Center on Thursday evening in the Big Easy.
• Haley Coleman led the way with a massive 21-point performance - the highest point total by any SFA player in 2017. The junior tied a career-best with 17 kills and nine of those terminations came in the deciding fourth frame. Additionally, Coleman delivered a career-best four service aces to keep the Privateers on their heels.
• Almost perfect through a first set that saw the Ladyjacks hit a staggering .800 with 20 kills, junior Peyton Redmond accumulated eight of her career-best 16 kills on only nine swings during the opening frame. Redmond added 11 digs as well to put the wraps on her first double-double effort of the 2017 campaign.
• The third piece of SFA's offensive assault was sophomore Danae Daron who produced 12 kills on the strength of a team-best attack percentage of .423. The native of Crosby, Texas, also racked up five blocks - a career-best two of which were of the solo vaiety.
• In the back row, senior libero Lexus Cain scooped up a match-best 16 digs which brought her career total to 1,493. That total is the seventh-most in a career in the history of the program and puts her only seven digs away from the 1,500 mark for her career. Should Cain reach that mark, she would become only the seventh player in program history to record 1,500 or more digs in a career.
• After not playing in the previous five matches, sophomore Shayla Eagleton returned to the floor for two of the four sets and generated three block assists. Two of those came in the late stages of the fourth and final frame that helped push SFA over the hump.
• Sophomore setter Ann Hollas distributed 45 assists during the win - one shy of tying her season high.
SCOUTING SOUTHEASTERN LOUISIANA | ROSTER | SCHEDULE | STATISTICS
• Not much has changed for the Lady Lions since their stop in Nacogdoches a little more than one week ago as Southeastern Louisiana remains in search of its first Southland Conference triumph of 2017. The Hammond, La., based squad has dropped 13-straight matches, including a five-set heartbreaker at home to Lamar on Thursday evening at the University Center. Southeastern Louisiana does not have a win in its home state this season as its two wins occurred in Alabama and Mississippi respectively and the Lady Lions are also searching for their first home victory since a 3-1 Southland Conference triumph over McNeese on Oct. 18, 2016.
• Southeastern Louisiana ranks last or second-to-last in the 13-team Southland Conference in 11 of the 12 major team statistical categories but possesses one of the best service specialists in the league in Elyssa Purcell. The sophomore has racked up 26 service aces and ranks fifth in the conference with an aces per set average of 0.37 and those numbers take a spike when looking exclusively at league matches. Purcell leads all players in the league with 22 service aces in Southland Conference action which is good for a league-best 0.56 per frame. Purcell also ranks second among the Lady Lions' ranks with 1.97 kills per set and is one of four players on the team's roster with 100 or more kills to their credit this season.
• Only Savannah Alcazar has succeeded in posting a kills per set average of over 2.00 for Southeastern Louisiana. The sophomore from League City, Texas, averages 2.39 terminations per frame and needs only two more to reach 200 for the season. Alcazar racked up a career-best 21 kills in the Lady Lions' five-set loss to Lamar on Thursday which was the first outing of 20 or more kills in a match by any player on Southeastern Louisiana's roster this season.
• Defensively it's Lexie Torres who leads the way in the back row. Torres has 282 digs to her credit this season and is the only member of the team with more than 200. In Southland Conference matches only, she ranks 10th in the league with an average of 3.75 scoops per set.
• Freshman and Beaumont, Texas, product Tempestt Vaughn is tops on Southeastern Louisiana's team with 0.74 blocks per set.
MILESTONE WATCH
• A number of Ladyjacks are nearing various career milestones in any number of statistical categories.
• Haley Coleman needs 15 more digs to reach 800 in her career and 24 more blocks to reach 100 in her career
• Lexus Cain needs seven more digs to reach 1,500 in her career.
• Makenzee Hanna needs two more blocks to reach 200 in her career.
• Shayla Eagleton needs 11 more kills to reach 100 in her career.
• Danae Daron needs four more kills to reach 400 in her career and one more block to reach 200 in her career.
• McKenzie Brewer needs 11 more assists to reach 700 in her career.
• Xariah Williams needs 22 more kills to reach 100 in her career.
• Anyia Williams needs six more kills to reach 100 in her career.
• KK Payne needs 26 more kills to reach 200 in her career.
COMING UP NEXT
• On Halloween night inside Shelton Gym, the Ladyjacks begin another week of three matches in five days by playing host to two-time defending Southland Conference champion Texas A&M-Corpus Christi at 6:30 p.m. In addition to the volleyball match, a number of other Halloween-inspired festivities are set to take place for the Ladyjacks' penultimate home match of 2017 including a costume contest, face painting and a poster contest - all of which will be made possible by SFA's Purple Haze Association student group. Fans in attendance will also receive the opportunity to get their hands on free pink t-shirts as the showdown between the Ladyjacks and Islanders has been tabbed as the ZTA Dig Pink match.
-SFA-
• For the first time since the 2017 campaign commenced, the Stephen F. Austin volleyball team sits in first place in the Southland Conference standings with only five league matches remaining in the regular season. Now the Ladyjacks' mission is to remain there and the first challenge the newly-minuted league leaders face comes Saturday afternoon in Hammond, La., where SFA is set to mix it up with Southeastern Louisiana at 1:00 p.m. inside the University Center.
• Even though SFA sits atop the 13-team Southland Conference, there are still any number of things that could happen to shake up the standings and determine the Southland Conference regular season champion. Only two games separate the teams in first through fifth place and Saturday SFA begins one of its toughest stretch of the season by playing four matches in eight days.
• Since suffering a 3-0 loss at the hands of Southland Conference adversary Houston Baptist on the penultimate day of September, SFA has responded by winning eight matches in a row to vault to the top of the Southland standings. That eight-match winning streak by the Ladyjacks is their second-longest of the season and all eight of the wins have come in the month of October, making SFA one of 25 NCAA Division I volleyball teams without a loss in the month. Of that group of 25 institutions, five are from the state of Texas and they include North Texas, Rice, SFA, Texas and Texas State.
• With over 20 wins in hand - 22 to be exact - SFA is one of just two Southland Conference programs and one of only 17 NCAA Division I volleyball teams with 20 or more wins under its belt in 2017. SFA is three victories shy of producing its first season of 25 or more wins in a decade.
• A big part of SFA's current run of success has been the play of junior outside hitter Haley Coleman. A product of Rockwall, Texas, Coleman broke into the top ten players in the Southland Conference in terms of kills per set and points per set by tying a career-high with 17 terminations and establishing a new career best with four service aces in Thursday night's 3-1 triumph at New Orleans. Coleman did not hit above .130 during her first two seasons as a collegian but has taken a major step forward as a junior by attacking at a clip of .283. Currently Coleman is tied for ninth among all Southland Conference players with a kills per set average of 2.98 and her points per set average of 3.44 ranks ninth among all league players. She has generated 10 or more kills and hit .300 or better in each of her last four matches while producing a pair of double-doubles in that span.
• The Ladyjacks own the top hitting percentage in the Southland Conference and their mark of .266 ranks 26th nationally. In Southland Conference matches, SFA is hitting at a league-leading clip of .305 which makes the Ladyjacks one of just 13 NCAA Division I teams from around the nation that has posted a team attack percentage of .300 or better in conference play.
LAST TIME OUT
• It took four sets - three of which were decided by four or fewer points - but the Ladyjacks outlasted an upset-minded New Orleans squad inside the Human Performance Center on Thursday evening in the Big Easy.
• Haley Coleman led the way with a massive 21-point performance - the highest point total by any SFA player in 2017. The junior tied a career-best with 17 kills and nine of those terminations came in the deciding fourth frame. Additionally, Coleman delivered a career-best four service aces to keep the Privateers on their heels.
• Almost perfect through a first set that saw the Ladyjacks hit a staggering .800 with 20 kills, junior Peyton Redmond accumulated eight of her career-best 16 kills on only nine swings during the opening frame. Redmond added 11 digs as well to put the wraps on her first double-double effort of the 2017 campaign.
• The third piece of SFA's offensive assault was sophomore Danae Daron who produced 12 kills on the strength of a team-best attack percentage of .423. The native of Crosby, Texas, also racked up five blocks - a career-best two of which were of the solo vaiety.
• In the back row, senior libero Lexus Cain scooped up a match-best 16 digs which brought her career total to 1,493. That total is the seventh-most in a career in the history of the program and puts her only seven digs away from the 1,500 mark for her career. Should Cain reach that mark, she would become only the seventh player in program history to record 1,500 or more digs in a career.
• After not playing in the previous five matches, sophomore Shayla Eagleton returned to the floor for two of the four sets and generated three block assists. Two of those came in the late stages of the fourth and final frame that helped push SFA over the hump.
• Sophomore setter Ann Hollas distributed 45 assists during the win - one shy of tying her season high.
SCOUTING SOUTHEASTERN LOUISIANA | ROSTER | SCHEDULE | STATISTICS
• Not much has changed for the Lady Lions since their stop in Nacogdoches a little more than one week ago as Southeastern Louisiana remains in search of its first Southland Conference triumph of 2017. The Hammond, La., based squad has dropped 13-straight matches, including a five-set heartbreaker at home to Lamar on Thursday evening at the University Center. Southeastern Louisiana does not have a win in its home state this season as its two wins occurred in Alabama and Mississippi respectively and the Lady Lions are also searching for their first home victory since a 3-1 Southland Conference triumph over McNeese on Oct. 18, 2016.
• Southeastern Louisiana ranks last or second-to-last in the 13-team Southland Conference in 11 of the 12 major team statistical categories but possesses one of the best service specialists in the league in Elyssa Purcell. The sophomore has racked up 26 service aces and ranks fifth in the conference with an aces per set average of 0.37 and those numbers take a spike when looking exclusively at league matches. Purcell leads all players in the league with 22 service aces in Southland Conference action which is good for a league-best 0.56 per frame. Purcell also ranks second among the Lady Lions' ranks with 1.97 kills per set and is one of four players on the team's roster with 100 or more kills to their credit this season.
• Only Savannah Alcazar has succeeded in posting a kills per set average of over 2.00 for Southeastern Louisiana. The sophomore from League City, Texas, averages 2.39 terminations per frame and needs only two more to reach 200 for the season. Alcazar racked up a career-best 21 kills in the Lady Lions' five-set loss to Lamar on Thursday which was the first outing of 20 or more kills in a match by any player on Southeastern Louisiana's roster this season.
• Defensively it's Lexie Torres who leads the way in the back row. Torres has 282 digs to her credit this season and is the only member of the team with more than 200. In Southland Conference matches only, she ranks 10th in the league with an average of 3.75 scoops per set.
• Freshman and Beaumont, Texas, product Tempestt Vaughn is tops on Southeastern Louisiana's team with 0.74 blocks per set.
MILESTONE WATCH
• A number of Ladyjacks are nearing various career milestones in any number of statistical categories.
• Haley Coleman needs 15 more digs to reach 800 in her career and 24 more blocks to reach 100 in her career
• Lexus Cain needs seven more digs to reach 1,500 in her career.
• Makenzee Hanna needs two more blocks to reach 200 in her career.
• Shayla Eagleton needs 11 more kills to reach 100 in her career.
• Danae Daron needs four more kills to reach 400 in her career and one more block to reach 200 in her career.
• McKenzie Brewer needs 11 more assists to reach 700 in her career.
• Xariah Williams needs 22 more kills to reach 100 in her career.
• Anyia Williams needs six more kills to reach 100 in her career.
• KK Payne needs 26 more kills to reach 200 in her career.
COMING UP NEXT
• On Halloween night inside Shelton Gym, the Ladyjacks begin another week of three matches in five days by playing host to two-time defending Southland Conference champion Texas A&M-Corpus Christi at 6:30 p.m. In addition to the volleyball match, a number of other Halloween-inspired festivities are set to take place for the Ladyjacks' penultimate home match of 2017 including a costume contest, face painting and a poster contest - all of which will be made possible by SFA's Purple Haze Association student group. Fans in attendance will also receive the opportunity to get their hands on free pink t-shirts as the showdown between the Ladyjacks and Islanders has been tabbed as the ZTA Dig Pink match.
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